i like the idea, for sure. >> chair: mr. stein? >> yes. i don't see any conflict between staying two consecutive terms, and the council setting up whatever rules it wants to have informally of the discussion in executive committee. we think there should be a two month mentoring program for someone interested in serving on the council. we should make that three months or six months of chairing the committee. we don't need to decide that now. it is not something that appears in the bylaws. in a sense incorporating the concept gives you more freedom rather than trying to thrash this particular concept out here at this meeting. there is nothing to prevent the council from having a role. cr rule. >> chair: is there anyone uncomfortable with the proposed amendment as it is written? >> maybe i can talk a little bit about it. >> chair: i want to announce you. >> i think it's good -- to have different councilmembers take a leadership. i don't know how to word it, sorry. as far as making a motion to make this change. i don't know how to word it. may

. >> thank you mr. stein. proceeding with agenda item number one, may we initiated roll call please. >> present today we have councilmembers wong, wilson, burkett, james, parson. >> item 2, reading and approval of agenda. with mr. stein.. >> here i am again. regular meeting, mayors disability council. one, welcome, introduction roll call. two, approval of the agenda. three, public comment, four, report from the chair. five, report from the director of the mayor's office of disability. six, report of the transportation plan update. seven, community perspective of supportive housing and sros eight, action item. nine, action item, proposed amendment to the mdc by laws. -- elven, multimodal accessibility committee update. eleven, public comment. that was 12, 13, correspondent, 14 councilmember comments and announcements. 15 adjourn. >> thank you. moving on the public comment agenda item number three. i have one speakers card here. our friends across the day ms. denise jacobson, with the oakland mayor's commission.

i like the idea, for sure. >> chair: mr. stein? >> yes. i don't see any conflict between staying two consecutive terms, and the council setting up whatever rules it wants to have informally of the discussion in executive committee. we think there should be a two month mentoring program for someone interested in serving on the council. we should make that three months or six months of chairing the committee. we don't need to decide that now. it is not something that appears in the bylaws. in a sense incorporating the concept gives you more freedom rather than trying to thrash this particular concept out here at this meeting. there is nothing to prevent the council from having a role. cr rule.

. >> >> chair: could you repeat that mr. stein? >> if no cochair is present at a meeting, the meeting can be chaired by another member of the council and that is a loosey-goosey term. we need to deal with if we have one cochair present, to keep that cochair continuing to chair. if there is no cochair present, another member of the council can chair, and stay within the bylaws. >> i choose to amend the motion, to include a limit of two months for a cochair-appointed replacement. >> should we say, not to exceed two consecutive meetings? m d c meetings. c>> chair: do you approve of that friendly amendment? councilmember wilson seconds the friendly amendment. everyone is clear? public comment? all in favor of the amendment proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. any opposed? abstained? that was not very painful. (laughter) we have a few more items. we are running short on time. is there any potential for extended time today? five minutes. thank you. the next item is a report from the disability disaster preparedness committe

have a good day, mr. stein. >> lindsay, one question. >> lindsay vaughn, olympic skier. >> [beep]. >> this is hilarious. >> sorry. we have to interrupt really quick. >> what? >> hey, johnny, can we talk about your parents for a second? >> what happened? >> johnny walker's parents went out for halloween. the dad dressed as dax and the mom is charles. >> your dad rocks. >> your parents are fun. >> yeah, they're great. >> guess what i got charles! [laughter] >> great. >> who's the boss now? [laughter] >> here's the boss. oh, gosh. >> coming up -- >> there's this adorable monkey in the san francisco zoo that everybody believes is like the good luck charm for the giants to win the world series. >> the rally monkey is an angel thing. >> where does the rally monkey live? >> on the big screen. >> jessica. she's a playboy model. jessica's hot shower. >> oh, my god. >> no one showers like that. >> she does. [laughter] >> "tmz," brought to you by centrum. >> coming up -- >> alison hanigan. i got it when my internet

. >> thank you, mr. stein, for that wonderful introduction. thank you, council members, for this opportunity to share what we do on a day-to-day basis. i'm a psychiatrist with the department of public health and clinical director of the homeless outreach team. our team started about 8 years ago and under mayor newsom's leadership and mayor newsom had visited different locations around the country and had heavy belief in the fact that you need outreach to reach out to folks who are otherwise unable to connect to the services that can help them. there are lots of people who use our department of public health services, human health services, shelters, but the outreach team is composed in particular to reach out to folks who had the inability because of their disabilities to make these connections. and so we were put together, you know, staffing from the department of public health, from human services agency, from a nonprofit, cats, one of the wonderful thing about cats is that they actually hire people who formerly were homeless, who formerly w

mr stein we've just learned that these israeli military have just to hit the international media headquarters in gaza for a second time what's the justification for that. we are aiming only at home us and its terrorist organization i know there is a mill they have a media center just next to the media center used by a. journalist a foreign journalist and the purpose of their building very base is next to places that you know will get a lot of media coverage is exactly for situations like this we do not aim of course the foreign press this is why we let them freely go inside gaza and we are the ones who believe in freedom of expression and freedom of speech. now israel has launched more than a thousand three hundred strikes so far killing a few dozen hamas members and even more civilians israel in turn has suffered no deaths by palestinian rocket attacks is your response really proportional. well i don't think you expect me to apologize for the fact that we are taking care of our civilians we have build the iron dome which helps us protect them against the rockets that are aimed at us for quit

we want to get to andrew stein, the chief marketing officer for kmart, sears holdings. mr. stein, good morning. great to see you. i understand that you're actually doing three different door buster deals today. tell us about them. >> so we open at 6:00 this morning and this year, we're doing three doorbuster events. so we're calling it our triple doorbusters, so 6:00 a.m. today until 4:00.this afternoon. we'll close for a few hours, get the stores ready. reopen at 8:00 p.m. tonight. and then come backs at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for a third round of doorbusters. we've seen that there's a different customer base. we've got a younger customer that prefers to shop at 8:00 tonight and then we've got a more traditional customer that will shop at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> sure, probably a little bit older. having said that, i was looking online last night, i saw some of your deals, $88 flat screens, barbies for $2.99. that brought me back to my childhood. so, tell me, what are some of the very best deals out there at kmart, if you were to go into the store right now? >> i

. >> mr. president, and vice president and commissioners of at peel board good evening, my name is gary gold stein and i am the owner. i was previously wholly bagel expanding to three locations. while operating, it starbucks began their san francisco operations. targeted bagel shops investing in my competitor. whenever it opens by wholly bagel i worried, in every instance my business increased. they knew that opening up to complimentary businesses created synergy. ni have worked within the guidelines set forth by the city and the department of public works and the health department and hope to continue to partake of the free enterprise system. i adhere to all criteria and my permit was approved. at the hearing, i shortened my hours, cut back my menu, and withdrew one of my applications. i operate only from six to ten in the morning. i open long before most of these businesses even open. i close shortly there after they open. i do this to appease any protestors and my permits were granted by th

have former speaker of the house and former presidential candidate newt gingrich. >> good morning, mr. speaker. >> mr. speaker, let's start with you. what are you looking for tonight? is virginia going tell the tale early? >> let me say first of all, i want to pick up something you said yesterday. i think the opening chapter of theeder white's 1960 making of the president captures the romance of the american system, the degree to which today is the american people's day, and the politicians and prognosticators, today is the american people's turn and we'll find out tonight. i think virginia will tell part of the tale. romney has to carry virginia in order to win and we'll know, i think, pretty early from returns around the state whether or not he's going do that. a also think, frankly, pennsylvania will tell part of the tale. if romney, in fact, is doing as well as the most recent polls in pennsylvania, which could end up being a much, much bigger victory than anyone expects and certainly expected on saturday. >> mr. speaker, it's willie geist, i'm curious to know about mitt romney, a